Jesus Christ: I think I would listen to him more than speak, because I'm sure he would clarify some of the blurs... the many inconsistencies & ideas that people have about what it means to be a Christian.

Langston Hughes: I'd ask him how it felt to be a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, who he considers to be the current torch-bearer in matters of race & literature, & if he'd do things differently, approach his life more openly, if he were living in 2010.

Sidney Poitier: I'd want to know about that tremendous pressure he must've felt, being the only Black actor getting a major shot in Hollywood, & how he reconciled that he wasn't supposed to be a speaker/representative for the entire black race.

Billie Holiday: I'd ask her to describe a perfect day, what it consisted of, & just what made her happy, because surely she didn't always sing the blues, at least not every single moment within her interior.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: I'd want to know just what made him tic, what gave him faith, courage, wisdom & insight in the most hopeless of times, & if he felt he was a visionary, or simply another Black man with a dream of something better.

This is a good question:I'd like to talk with any of the great Rulers of Africa to talk about the greatness and legacy of our race and also talk about how vastly different the continent is today than it was during their reign.

Tupac: I would love to just pick his mind about everything.

My grandmother: so manythings I would like to talk about but I was too young before her death to even think of these things.

Louis Farrakhan, John Maynard Keynes-so we could discuss his take on the current financial crisis, Sally Hemmings, Einstein, and any one of the Founding Fathers-so I could get their take on what the constitution means to today's issues and how they would interpret it.

Val,

Very nice choices. There's no way that the Christ and Muhammed interviews couldn't be interesting.